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BobCozzi
19 Sep 2008, 17:48
Today's live show went poorly.
The system Blue-Screened on me twice during the 1 hour show-causing me to loose the recording as well.
Also, it seems like there's an (imaginary) pattern emerging here. Every other release of VidBlaster seems to hog the system. The evidence is that going from .32 to .34. I was unable to record audio (via Audition 3) simultaneously without it tripping every 5 or so sections. So I got smooth audio, stutter, smooth audio, stutter.

When I moved to v0.34 this went away and everything was fantastic.
I've since moved to v0.37 and that stuttering is back. If there were a "NONE" option on some of the video players that might help reduce the footprint/resource usage (I have 2 cameras, the screen capture and at least 4 or 5 players with JPGs or MOV files loaded and switch between them.

But that setup is no different from what I had with v0.34 and it worked fine.
(I wish I had kept that version around!)

Anyway, here's my setup:

Mackie Onyx mixer to PC.
Adobe Audition direct recording from Mixer
Adobe Flash Media Encoder
--Gets video stream from VidBlaster, audio from Mixer.


FYI, I use the mixer's audio in FME because if I select "VidBlaster" for the audio in FME, FME dies (gets immediate blown out of memory and ends as if it were never there--no errors, nothing, just disappears.)

Mike
19 Sep 2008, 18:13
Can you confirm switching between 34 and 37 changes CPU usage while keeping everything exactly the same? I cannot explain that.

Players do not take up much, but if you like you can clear them. Cameras (especially webcams) use a lot, as well as screen capture (especially for large areas). It saves a lot to record uncompressed, use an internal frame grabber and apply video analog, use lower resolution, lower frame rate and of course, make sure no other programs are running. Basically if you have good stuff, your setup will work fine on a Core 2 Duo. Note FME is a resource hog, the Ustream client is much lighter.

PS: You posted this in the wrong topic so I created a new one for you..

Mike
23 Sep 2008, 13:43
http://vidblaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=138.msg550#msg550